PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 A Brief Review of Federal Government Report on Homeschool Growth, by Noel, Stark, and Redford Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Is it still growing? If so, at what rate? This is what a lot of media reporters, proponents of homeschooling, and antagonists of parent-led […]
Economic Impact of Home and Private Schooling on the Public Education System: Iowa as a Case Study Douglas P. Dotterweich Professor of Economics and Eastman Credit Union Fellow in the Department of Economics and Finance, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, dotterwe@etsu.edu Michael M. McKinney Associate Professor of Management in the Department […]
PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 A Brief Review of Religion, volunteering, and educational setting: The effect of youth schooling type on civic engagement, by Hill and Den Dulk Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Keywords: homeschooling, education, home-school, youth, civic engagement, volunteer, religion, education What are home-educated children like when they […]
Jennifer Rathmell Chiang Mai, Thailand, jen@rathmell.com1 Gail Collins Department of Education, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, glcollins@liberty.edu Abstract The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the stress that families incur when they choose home education as their primary educational method. Extensive studies exist regarding stress that traditional education teacher’s experience. However, […]
Joseph F. Murphy Frank W. Mayborn Chair & Associate Dean for Special Projects Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College Nashville, Tennessee, joseph.f.murphy@vanderbilt.edu Abstract In this article, the tremendous change in the homeschooling population over the last 40 years—from less than 20,000 students in 1975 to over 2,000,000 today—is analyzed. This is accomplished by unpacking the changes in […]
PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 A Brief Review of “Study: Homeschool Students Sleep Better” 1 Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA This article appears in the sectoin “Perspectives – News and Comments” of this journal that consists of articles that have not undergone peer review. Some intriguing things are associated […]
PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 A Brief Review of “The Impact of Homeschooling on the Adjustment of College Students” by Drenovsky and Cohen Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Keywords: homeschooling, college success, adults. Are they not a bit fringy? How will they adjust if they go on to college? […]
Johnnie Seago Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, jkseago@gmail.com Abstract This article responds to Poutiatine’s (2009) What is Transformational?: Nine Principles Toward an Understanding Transformational Process for Transformational Leadership by relating home schooling environments as lab schools for developing transformational leaders. Although many families select home schooling for improved academic progress or structured moral development, this […]
Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA It is intriguing to watch scholars – whether legal, educational, sociological, or psychological – make their appeals to reason when their arguments are built on a theoretical framework of little substance. It is then amazing when they have no empirical evidence to support certain […]
Karen Hurlbutt Department of Special Education, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota, karen.hurlbutt@mnsu.edu Abstract The increase in individuals and students being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been significant in recent years, and teachers are finding themselves needing to work with students for which they may be inadequately prepared. More and more parents of children […]